{"id":9297,"date":"2018-05-29T15:08:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T13:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/full.polito.it\/agenda\/global-and-regional-water-and-food-security-challenges\/"},"modified":"2018-05-29T15:08:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T13:08:52","slug":"global-and-regional-water-and-food-security-challenges","status":"publish","type":"agenda","link":"https:\/\/full.polito.it\/en\/events\/global-and-regional-water-and-food-security-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Global and Regional Water and Food Security Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Water has become one of the most valuable resources for the world population. Our water resources are continuously<\/p>\n<p>deteriorating, both in terms of quantity and quality. In parallel, population growth, climate instability, development of life-style and desertification, among other reasons, have resulted in water scarcity in many regions around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Water is also key for food security, thus, water shortage is a major concern for our global future needs. A brief overview of the current water scarcity will be given. As the Middle East is the most water scarce region in the world, some examples and complexities related to this region will be briefly presented as well.<\/p>\n<p>Ideas and potential solutions for better management of our water resources will be explained, mostly with examples from Israel. Lastly, the importance of \u00a0academia for finding better solutions and technologies will be discussed.<\/p>\n<p>The seminar will take place on Friday 24<sup>th<\/sup> November, 11:30\u2013 13:00, at DIATI, Corso Duca d\u2019Abruzzi, 24 in Turin (Entrance 3, Sala Riunioni, 1\u00b0 floor), presented by Prof.Noam Weisbrod (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water has become one of the most valuable resources for the world population. Our water resources are continuously deteriorating, both in terms of quantity and quality. In parallel, population growth, climate instability, development of life-style and desertification, among other reasons, have resulted in water scarcity in many regions around the world. Water is also key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"primo-piano":[],"research-tag":[],"research-tematictag":[],"agenda-type":[359],"class_list":["post-9297","agenda","type-agenda","status-publish","hentry","agenda-type-seminar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Global and Regional Water and Food Security Challenges - FULL | the Future Urban Legacy Lab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/full.polito.it\/en\/events\/global-and-regional-water-and-food-security-challenges\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Global and Regional Water and Food Security Challenges - FULL | the Future Urban Legacy Lab\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Water has become one of the most valuable resources for the world population. 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